In 2004, the PSF selected three grant proposals to fund. One
of them, "Moving Jython Forward", was only partially completed by
Brian Zimmer due to a job change. Some time later, Frank Wierzbicki
offered to take over maintenance of the Jython project, but he found
that he had under-estimated the amount of work necessary when taking
over the proposal from Brian, and he did not make as much progress as
he had wanted to.

Martin von Löwis, the Grants Committee chair, has since discussed this
project with Frank, and they agreed to cancel the remaining grant
funding, as there was likely no chance to achieve the planned goals
any time soon.

Jython itself, an implementation of Python
written in Java, is still very much worth supporting, and Andrew
Kuchling has put support for Jython on his agenda. The PSF will
continue to support Jython going forward.

The PSF

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